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Originally Posted by ssiguy
I totally appreciate them wanting to shift to more office development but a regular office and a social services office are 2 different things.
People still have very negative views about welfare {except for people with disabilities} and I am surprised that the merchants already in CitiPlaza aren't more than a little displeased.
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I work in the downtown core, not far from the current welfare office, and the breezeway that sits between Market Tower and the new Fanshawe College building, is just a magnet for homeless people, bums, scruffy, unkempt people, many of whom are heavy smokers. I see people actually lying down and napping on the concrete benches there. The cops occasionally patrol the area, but they seem to do little or nothing.
The smoke in the breezeway is often heavy so it makes transiting through the area an exercise in unpleasantness.
And here I was, thinking that mainly students would be making use of the benches there. I hardly ever see any students using the area, much less coming and going from the Fanshawe building.
So much for downtown revitalization. The breezeway has become an eyesore instead of what it was intended to be.
By moving the welfare office east to Citi Plaza, all you're going to do is move the problem eastwards, and then the layabouts will just simply invade and pollute the foodcourt on the main floor. Mall security will be busy shooing them away. So I could easily see why mall merchants would be displeased with the move.
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